Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Riding Down The Road There Are Alot Of Houses In

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationMiddletown, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 Middletown Pennsylvania

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Riding Down The Road There Are Alot Of Houses In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a drive through Middletown, Pennsylvania. The footage shows a winding road bordered by grassy shoulders and autumn-colored trees, with houses nestled on a hillside in the distance. The view shifts to a wider landscape featuring a row of distinctive buildings with rounded roofs, likely a motel or complex, under a clear blue sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123240480

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1975 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

road
sign
hills
houses
grass
riding
alot
buildings
landmarks
middletown PA
1975
1975 home movie footage
vintage 8mm film
road trip 1975
autumn foliage
Super 8 home movie
vintage road footage
70s Americana
classic film
nostalgic drive
rural Pennsylvania
vintage 8mm
1970s footage
archival film
retro home movie
driving scene
suburban landscape
1975 vintage footage
8mm home movie

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s editorial requests needing a brief home-movie driving view of Middletown, Pennsylvania roads, hillsides, and roadside development.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1970s suburban or small-town roadside scenery, with open grassy shoulders, autumn trees, distant houses, and low buildings seen from a moving car.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual passenger perspective, recording an ordinary drive and distant landscape without staging, narration, or composed travelogue framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving paved road, grassy verges, autumn-colored wooded hills, distant hillside houses, small roadside signs, low rounded-roof buildings, parked cars, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld movement that preserve the texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, road-travel transition, suburban cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s Pennsylvania sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for roadside travel and built landscapes around Middletown, showing open land, wooded hills, and low commercial or residential structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any recognizable property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1975 Middletown Pennsylvania 8mm road footage, 1970s Pennsylvania home movie driving view, and vintage small-town roadside landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1975 Middletown or Pennsylvania material, then with road travel, suburban landscape, or 1970s home-movie cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Middletown, Pennsylvania home-movie view from a moving car, showing a curved road, grassy shoulder, wooded hillside, and distant houses. — Roadside view with autumn trees and houses on a hill in the distance.

Moving-car view in Middletown, Pennsylvania, with a road bending beside open grass and a tree-covered hillside under blue sky. — The road bends alongside open grass and autumn-colored woods.

Wide 1975 Middletown view showing low rounded-roof buildings, scattered trees, parked cars, and distant hills beneath a clear sky. — A wider landscape reveals low buildings, trees, parked cars, and distant hills.

Distant Middletown landscape with a row of low buildings, rounded roofs, parked cars, open grass, and a blue 8mm sky. — Low buildings and parked cars sit across the open roadside landscape.

Visually Similar Clips